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Mysterious Island; Captain Harding's FABULOUS Adventures
Topic Started: Jan 19 2009, 09:36 PM (4,515 Views)
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Yes, Balconeers and Balconettes, it is time once again to present another weekly serial, chapter by chapter, an In The Balcony exclusive. If you go to http://inthebalcony.com/ and follow the links to our Cliffhanger area, eventually you'll find the foist episode, which we'll move right here in this message board thread as soon as the second episode is up next week. See how this works? Don't you wish you had your OWN Balcony to fool around in, eh?
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So glad you're doing this play-by-play of my all-time favorite serial. It's more fun than reading about an awful one. Thing is, the serial's closer to the Jules Verne book than the feature versions, honest, 'cause I've read that sucker. I didn't say close, just closer.

I think it was my first movie where an African-American is like everybody else, and to a Southern 8 year old that felt right. He's not noble like Poitier: he's just one of the guys, like kids I knew who weren't any different from me except for their complexion. One thing I remember, they couldn't sit downstairs in the theater but it was OK for me to go sit with them in the balcony. Figure that out. It was sad when we got to be teens and stopped hanging. I didn't understand, but it was completely final and I don't know where any of them went -- just that they went to the city and so did I.

Oh well...it's one of those bittersweet nostalgic nights.
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Yeah, the first episode was so dizzy I am seriously considering jettisoning the planned Captain Midnight and showing THIS on FNF instead when we finish Cap'n Marvel...
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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That would be a wise cherce if you have young 'uns in the audience. Mysterious Island so stimulated my imagination that I started drawing my own comics (with stick people -- I couldn't draw), called M.I. Don't know what happened to them, but I suspect Mom didn't appreciate their artistic merits. I seem to remember a lot of mayhem in every episode.

And, Mr. G, you have many surprises ahead -- haven't met the wildest character in the story, and don't know where the Space Lady came from. Spencer Gordon Bennett made heaps of zippy serials and this may be the most fun of 'em all. It's like a demented pilot for Star Trek.
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"That would be a wise cherce if you have young 'uns in the audience."

Well, of COURSE we have young 'uns in the audience. Why would GROWN ADULTS watch SERIALS?!?
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Wow! The real Captain Marvel on Saturday and now Mysterious Island! What more could a guy want? Having recently enjoyed this serial myownself, I'll be anxious to read your take on it, and like Mr. P said, you ain't seen nuttin' yet!
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Who has nice copies of this? and I mean for sale.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Mine came from Rodney. Speaking of Rodney, has anyone seen him around lately?
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Thanks Chandu....I ain't a-seen him.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Our brave Union forces watch the spacecraft hurtle over the volcano, and one of them says inquisitively, “It looks like some strange craft from some other planet. I’d like to seek its landing place out – at some future time.” One wonders what language this script was translated into English from, particularly when the beautiful space ship lady says to her men, “I have arrived safely on Earth. We will now go to my former workshop.”

Gosh, I missed this whole sequence when I watched the serial. Musta been so excited I dozed off briefly, but I went through the rest of the serial wonderin' where the heck these space folks came from and what they were doin' there? It made a Mysterious Island even more perplexing to me.
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Jan 20 2009, 04:50 PM

Why would GROWN ADULTS watch SERIALS?!?


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Not in MY family it ain't, bub.

Okay, so... ya'll are gonna have to be patient, y'know. If we're going to watch MYSTERIOUS ISLAND for our next serial, we'll see chapter one on Friday, January 30, and chapter two on February 6, which means I won't be able to get it posted until a few days after that and then we'll do it every week. Are ya'll patient? I think so. You waited, like, what, six years for me to finish YOUNG EAGLES?
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Jan 21 2009, 08:42 AM
You waited, like, what, six years for me to finish YOUNG EAGLES?
I think everyone was hopin' it was over before it was finished.
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Jan 20 2009, 06:55 PM
Mine came from Rodney. Speaking of Rodney, has anyone seen him around lately?
Yeah, he's here. He's just been taking a little break from the message board world.
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Jan 21 2009, 08:42 AM
...we're going to watch MYSTERIOUS ISLAND for our next serial, we'll see chapter one on Friday, January 30, and chapter two on February 6, which means I won't be able to get it posted until a few days after that and then we'll do it every week.
I ordered this from Rodney yesterday, so I can sing-along!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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